Quotes About Optimism

Where hopes burn bright," he said, "patience is quickly consumed.

Good thoughts yield good things. The future, no matter how dark it seems, can always change, as long as the thoughts change.

It's bound to be better than my first date! she told him.

No. --Claire Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve

See? My plans don't all suck. Just most of them.

How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had? I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.

The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it's sadly temporary in its effects.

So, I guess you're there at your new place. Hope it's awesome. If it's not, you'll make it awesome, because that's what you do. It's your superpower.

Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.'" "Stupid

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Jess. Khalila drew his gaze back to her. What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? 'Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Hope was a great deal like fear.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?

I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.

I want that. The getting younger with each step, because of anticipation, in hope and belief.

I hope that global warming will go away. I hope that people won't be homeless. I hope that suffering will not exist. I want to believe that my hope is not in vain.

I want to believe that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, there is reason to hope.

Nihilism is not the last word. The last word is imagination.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Humor und Geduld sind die beiden Kamele, mit denen man jede Wüste durchqueren kann. (Arabisches Sprichwort)